Mike Zandler joined the Harvard baseball coaching staff in July
2013 as an assistant coach. Zandler previously served as the head
coach at the University of Illinois Springfield, an NCAA Division
II institution, for two seasons after assisting at Davidson for
five years.

Zandler took over at UIS in December 2011, two months prior to the
team’s second season in existence. Over the next 1 1/2 years,
Zandler helped improve the team’s ERA by more than two runs
per game and led the Prairie Stars to a school record in conference
wins. In addition to on-field improvement, Zandler’s squads
were honored with 18 academic all-conference awards and recorded
the highest two semester grade-point averages in program history.
The team had 46 players named to the UIS honor roll in his three
semesters of coaching and amassed more than 1,000 hours of
community service in 2012-13.

Prior to UIS, Zandler worked primarily with the pitching staff and
served as the recruiting coordinator at Davidson. His staff
produced an impressive run of improvement over his tenure, as the
Wildcats lowered their team ERA and opponent’s batting
average in each of Zandler’s five seasons. His recruiting
efforts also yielded two Louisville Slugger D-I Freshman
All-Americans and three players were named to the All-Southern
Conference Freshman Team during his time at Davidson.

His college coaching career started in 2002 at Guilford College in
Greensboro, N.C. Zandler was responsible for the oversight and
development of the pitching staff at the Division III program and
helped with the Quakers’ recruiting efforts.

Zandler also has nine years of high school baseball coaching
experience, including four years as a head coach at Walter Hines
Page High School in Greensboro, N.C.

He graduated from Bridgewater College (Va.) in 1991 with a degree
in political science. He also holds a master's degree in
curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech.